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It was the "different war", the one Americans could not agree on and cannot forget. Here is the first emotional history of the Vietnam war, told by the generation that was asked to fight it. In over 500 stunning candid interviews, we hear from those who went and those who stayed home. They are soldiers and protesters, officers and "grunts", bla... more »ck and white, guilty and proud. In their own words, they share their most intimate mmemories of that epock making conflict and remind us in movingly human terms of the powerfull effect Vietnam still has on the hearts and minds of the American people.« less